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Olive Oil Benefits for Your Skin

Trying to keep up with what’s hot in skincare is like trying to keep up with the Kardashians. It’s impossible (not that I’ve tried, with the Kardashians, that is.

Then how are you to know what are the latest and greatest ingredients? Well, you could listen to your grandmother.

Some of the newest discoveries in skin care aren’t new at all: Olive oil may seem hot now, but countless Mediterranean grandmothers, including mine, have sworn by its skincare benefits for centuries. Were they right? Olive oil contains caffeic acid, oleic acid, and oleuropein, all potent antioxidants. Unlike berries or teas, these antioxidants are already in oil, allowing them to be directly applied to the skin.

Massage it on dry hands or feet before bedtime and wear cotton gloves or socks. Note: It can stain your sheets.

Consumed olive oil is also healthy for your skin. Eating 2 tablespoons a day might help reduce your risk for heart disease as well. (I could eat 2 tablespoons straight from the bottle on a crusty piece of bread.) If you’re not so daring, you could use it in salad dressings, add it to pasta, vegetables, and soups and even drizzle a little on meats such as grilled chicken.

Remember, only virgin olive oil and extra virgin olive oil are unprocessed. Other olive oils are refined or chemically treated. Use extra virgin, which has the best flavor, for eating, and save the lesser expensive virgin olive oil to apply to your skin. Well, unless you’re a Kardashian.

22 thoughts on “Olive Oil Benefits for Your Skin”

I’m sure olive oil works well-ish but what would have to be better is 10% urea cream, any brand. Ive been using it for about a week and a half and it is AMAZING. my skin has improved so much, I don’t know why it hasn’t come up more often on your blog!

No…actually olive oil has been known to reduce acne! Go figure, as oily as it is. I am sure the ‘secret’ is good olive oil. Carothers’ olive oil is all I use on my skin and it does not seize to surprise me how quickly my skin absorbs it.

I now use olive oil to remove eye makeup and don’t go anywhere without it. I use it to heal my dry cracked hands in the winter, but I no longer use it on my face because it seemed to dull my complexion. I wrote several blog posts on my experiences in trying out olive oil:

My grandmother would also recommend olive oil. Although I’m from the caribbean, I always remember that people who had babies had a small bottle of olive oil that they used on their babies – not johnson’s baby oil (only if you had money you used that). my mother recently bought it and encouraged us to use it because one day she remembered how her mother’s skin was glowing – and that was due to the olive oil that she had been using for years. olive oil is some potent stuff!

My Grandma Pavlick used Ponds cold cream to remove her makeup at the end of the day, wiping it off with a dry cloth, then would put Oil Of Olay on. If I didn’t break out so easily I’d be following in her footsteps because her skin was baby smooth until the day she died.

I would also suggest Argan oil, it contains a large amount of vitiman E, which has a list of benefits of its own. By doing some research of my own I found that one benefit of using argan oil, that because olive oil does not have, is that it protects the body against ultraviolet radiations which leads to skin cancer. As a personal recomendation I would suggest Soellbeauty’s argan oil, simply because it is sold at Whole Food’s Mart, which I am loyal to.

I have been using vaseline on my skin since very young,and I’m sure that helped my skin, because at my age now I dont have half the wrinkels as ladies my age.I always get asked if I had a face lift!

I would just like to ask if I may,I have a problem with my nose,now how can I explain it,I got lots of oil on my nose (only part of my face thats oily)so,under the skin there is a accumalation of white stuff.It is very noticable I’m lost tried everything very self-conscious about it. Please can you help!

Oh, how many times have my various aunts and grans have gushed about olive oil? You’d think if you just asked, it’ll also cure cancer for you, or at least malaria!

However, there’s one use of olive oil that’s been verified rather recently. There exists a residence therapy that you can easily use to treat hemorrhoids with olive oil. Olive oil, as odd as it might seem, is recognized for its capability to decrease swelling and ease itching created by hemorrhoids. Nevertheless, this therapy isn’t safe for internal usage.

Your post reminded me of my mother who used to make a hair mask with olive oil. I still remember my hair wrapped around with a plastic cap, feeling hot and waiting for the ingredient to work. It was supposed to make my hair stronger. I liked that procedure.